Are We Feeling Liberated Yet? - Trump thread #141

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King Donald has bigly new tariffs, First Lady Elmo turns out to be ballot box poison and 'Pick Me Girl' Vance is a meanie to the EU.

(But at least the penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands are wearing suits)

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5297058-trumpmusk-the-doge-and-pony-show-continues-trump-thread-140

https://www.instagram.com/overheardonwallstreet/reel/DIN_uwKuuPO/

So he paused tariffs on all countries except China ... because other countries were, quote: "kissing my ass"?

Is the new 125% tariff on Chinese goods because they're not kissing his ass?

What does his ass have to do with trade? <feigning innocence>

Haven’t only 75 of them kissed his ass? Presumably small ones. There didn’t seem to be a lot of ass kissing from the EU, Canada and Australia.

50 and 75 are suspiciously round numbers. Wonder how much rounding there was if it wasn’t an outright lie.

They could use trains......

It's K I C K I N G you great bigly 🍊

Not "Kissing", ffs.

🤦🏻‍♀️

or shackle them and make them walk...

Maybe ask Putin.......

There might be videos, alledgedly

@CaveMum Is he a cotton candy ass yet?😉

<hands specially formulated mind bleach to everyone>
🙈

"This is one of the greatest days in American economic history… I think we’re going to call it the art of the reciprocal trade deal… All the nervous nellies who tried to undermine us consistently underestimate the power of the president.”"

What?

it's just such a shame he doesn't speak English...
Y'know, so the rest of humanity could google translate him. 🤷‍♀️

Is this unliberation day then? Is there liberation day 2 in 90 days?

Here's a quick round up of where we are on tariffs. I know, it's whiplash inducing.
(I'm waiting for the link to be archived but you might be able to read it from this share).

www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/tariffs-90-day-pause-trump-latest-news-k30s3gqxh

The problem with that article is that there’s a non zero chance that by the time I get to the end of it it will be out of date and China will be paying 175% tariffs.

His entire presidency is like an act of abuse.

I hate the fact he's going to get away with all this shit

Signalgate feels a long time ago

Yes

If this was "all a bluff", then it's going to have major repercussions for the USA. Who is going to trust him when he makes up policy again?
Who is going to trust the USA as a good place to invest?

There will be consequences - and I call bullshit on this being a bluff. He blinked.

Or if it was a bluff, then clearly he doesn't care about manufacturing in the USA

I’m not even convinced he knows himself.

The World Trade Organisation forecasts an 80% fall in trade between the US and China, worth $466 billion.

Watch this from 17.00 mins to 18.00 mins
QI - Series F: 1. Family - BBC iPlayer
David 😁

People were getting yippy. But I thought they were all panicans? And that was bad. How is he squaring this with himself?

Obviously he won't try.

After 90 days are we just going to forget all of this?

I know that China has a lot of US Government Bonds - that's what I picked up from Radio 4 today.

Does that give China some financial power over the USA?

Peter Navarro not feeling happy:-

'Don't do this,' says Trump adviser when approached by Sky News
Peter Navarro, Donald Trump's long-time trade adviser, was not in a mood to speak when we caught up with him just now.
"No, don't do this," he said, motioning for our US correspondent James Matthews to go.
Matthews asked him about his op-ed in the Financial Times, published on Monday, in which he wrote "this is not a negotiation"
"You said that tariffs were non-negotiable, why did you say that? Did you contribute to the chaos in the market?"

From Sky News

But what about the $2 BILLION coming in every day?

Donald Trump has defended his tariffs by arguing that they are already raking in almost $2bn (£1.6bn) a day for the US.
Speaking after more than $5tn of losses on the US stock market since his “liberation day” announcement last week, he made the claim on Tuesday, adding: “America is going to be very rich again, very soon.”